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The a to Z of Horror Cinema

2009
Horror is one of the most enduring and controversial of all cinematic genres. Horror films range from the subtle and the poetic to the graphic and the gory but what links them all is their ability to frighten, disturb, shock, provoke, delight, irritate, amuse, and bemuse audiences.
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Italian horror cinema

Studies in European Cinema, 2018
It would be fair to say that academic histories of horror cinema have traditionally treated the Italian variant on the genre with a certain amount of confusion, snobbishness and disdain.
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Jewish Horror Cinema

Abstract This chapter examines the complex relationship between Judaism and horror cinema, distinguishing between films that merely feature Jewish characters and those that engage substantively with Jewish folklore and cosmology. While Jews often appear marginally in Christian-centric horror films like The Exorcist (1973) and The Omen
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Fear in the Cinema and the Definition of Horror

2021
This chapter presents the view that horror’s principal differentiating function is to induce fear. Some of the worries that have been noted in the literature regarding this thesis are dispelled. Topics considered include the distinction between “pure” and “hybrid” forms of the genre, the multifarious import of representations of violence and gore, and ...
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A Wilderness of Horrors? British Horror Cinema in the New Millennium

Journal of British Cinema and Television, 2012
In the concluding section of the first edition of English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema, Jonathan Rigby stated that ‘like all things, the British horror cinema emerged, flowered briefly, decayed and then died’ (2000: 245). Although a number of independently produced, lowbudget horror films, did emerge amid the success of Four Weddings and a ...
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Studying Horror Cinema

2019
Aimed at teachers and students new to the subject, this book is a comprehensive survey of the genre from silent cinema to its twenty-first century resurgence. Structured as a series of thirteen case studies of easily accessible films, it covers the historical, production, and cultural context of each film, together with detailed textual analysis of key
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A History of Animal Horror Cinema

2015
In 1887, French sculptor Emmanuel Fremiet’s Gorille enlevant une femme (Gorilla carrying off a woman) was awarded the prestigious Medal of Honor when it was first exhibited in Paris. The life-sized bronze sculpture shows a gorilla clutching a naked, struggling woman to his right side.
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The Face of Horror: Ageing Anxiety in Horror Cinema and the ‘Hag Horror’ Tradition

Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media
With the ageing of contemporary societies, anxieties surrounding old age and bodily decline have become increasingly visible in popular culture, particularly within horror cinema. While feminist film studies and ageing studies have addressed representations of older women, the specific cinematic strategies through which ageing female bodies are ...
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Hong Kong Horror Cinema

2018
Dumplings stuffed with diabolical fillings. Sword-wielding zombies. Hopping cadavers. Big-head babies. For decades, Hong Kong cinema has served up images of horror quite unlike those found in other parts of the world. In seminal films such as A Chinese Ghost Story , Rouge
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Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema

2015
The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises, reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have been put in place by scholarly discourse to label 1940s horror as somehow inferior to a “classical” period or “canonical” mode of horror in the 1930s, especially ...
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